Linda Ann Vorobik, botanist, editor, and illustrator of numerous botanical publications, cherishes all three west coast states as home. She holds a PhD from the University of Oregon, Eugene, and conducts field research and teaches in the Siskiyou Mountains of southwestern Oregon. She lives on Lopez Island, Washington, and visits Berkeley on a regular basis, where she is a Research Associate at the University Herbarium, UC. Linda has over 25 years of illustration and college level teaching experience, and is principal illustrator of, for example, ``The Flora of Santa Cruz Island``, ``The Flora of San Nicolas Island``, and ``The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California``, and has contributed many illustrations to ``Morphology and Evolution of Vascular Plants``. She currently is impassioned with watercolors of local wildflowers and with cultivars, especially orchids and ferns. For more information or to see or purchase art, see website. Linda`s work can always be seen at Chimera Gallery, Lopez Island WA.